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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808255603321

Autore

Bruweleit Stefan

Titolo

Aspect, tense and action in the Arabic dialect of Beirut / / by Stefan Bruweleit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-28754-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, , 0081-8461 ; ; Volume 79

Disciplina

492.7/7

Soggetti

Arabic language - Dialects

Arabic language - Variation

Urban dialects - Lebanon - Beirut

Arabic language - Social aspects

Beirut (Lebanon) Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 General Reflections on Universal Grammar -- 2 Tense -- 3 Aspect -- 4 Action -- 5 The Categorial Interplay -- 6 Negation -- 7 The Reference Point in Aspectual and Tense Languages -- 8 Introductory Remarks -- 9 Some Remarks on the Phonology and the Verb Forms -- 10 Anteriority to the Speech Time -- 11 Plural Situations -- 12 Simultaneity with a Reference Point in the Past -- 13 Anteriority to a Reference Point in the Past -- 14 Posteriority to a Reference Point in the Past -- 15 The Speech Time -- 16 Extratemporality -- 17 Posteriority to the Speech Time -- 18 Simultaneity with a Reference Point in the Future -- 19 Anteriority to a Reference Point in the Future -- 20 Verbs of Perception -- 21 Circumstantial Clauses -- 22 Conditional Clauses -- 23 Summary Arranged According to Chapter -- 24 Summary Arranged According to Verb Form -- 25 The Oppositions in the Verbal System -- 26 Some Remarks on the Evolution of the Arabic Verbal System -- 27 Aspects or Discussed and Narrated World? -- 28 Substitution Test -- 29 The Results of this Work -- Texts in the Dialect of Beirut -- Bibliography --



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Sommario/riassunto

The linguistic categories of aspect, tense and action are closely interrelated. In the first part of Aspect, Tense and Action in the Arabic dialect of Beirut , Stefan Bruweleit defines the three categories and describes the interplay between them at a metagrammatical level. In the next parts he applies the theoretical findings of the first part to the Arabic dialect of Beirut, investigates the ways temporal, aspectual and actional categories are expressed and shows how to decide whether the verb system of the dialect has to be regarded as aspectual or as temporal. One of the main results of the work is the fact that a thorough understanding of a verb system is only possible through an understanding of the categorial interplay of aspect, tense and action.